On 12.07.2011, at 16:12, [email protected] wrote: > > What would motivate a user of either fltk 2.0 or 1.x (not > an fltk developer) to upgrade an existing application to 3.0? It apparently > offers no new features, fixes no bugs, and doesn't > improve performance.
Good points! FLTK 2 users would benefit by gaining a new core that is much more stable than their core at the cost of losing the one or the other feature. They would gain Fl_Table (fltk3::Table) and Fl_Tree (fltk3::Tree), although the fltk 2 browser is also usable as a tree. They will also gain Fl_Help_Browser (fltk3::HelpBrowser) and fltk3::TextEditor that is now fully UTF8 capable (the current fltk 2 text editor is ASCII only IIRC). FLTK 1 users will gain styles, true hierarchical menus, tablet support, shaped windows. Both user groups will gain cross access between their original code base and FLTK 3. FLTK 1 and FLTK 3 code can be intermixed, as can FLTK 2 code and FLTK 3. Both groups will gain an improved Fluid with Rapid Prototyping support, but psst, that's still a secret ;-) - Matthias _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
